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Jan. 10
Print Edition for the week of
Jan. 10 - 16, 2018
Vol. 18, No. 35
Rachel Tunstall
News
Northwest Portland Has Begun Denying Parking Permits to Some Apartment Residents
And Similar Policies Could Soon Spread to Other Areas
by Dirk VanderHart
Political Groups Are Trying to Trick You in the Official Voters’ Pamphlet for This Month’s Election
And the Secretary of State Says He Has to Print It
by Doug Brown
Hall Monitor: After the B-Word
A Hasty Insult Has Taken Some Pressure Off Commissioner Loretta Smith
by Dirk VanderHart
Music
Girl Fest Couldn’t Come at a Better Time
This Year’s Lineup Features Dreckig, Gifted Gab, and More
by Isabel Lyndon
The Prids Persist
Talking Life, Death, and Dark Pop with One of Portland’s Longest-Running Bands
by Ben Salmon
The 17 Best Concerts to See in Portland This Week: January 10-16
Destroyer, Sløtface, and the Fifth Annual Girl Fest
Movies & TV
The 20 Best Films to Catch in Portland Theaters This Week: January 12-18
This Week:
Coraline
,
The Raid
, a Studio Ghibli Retrospective, and More
by Mercury Staff
My Life as a Zucchini
Review: FINALLY, a Stop-Motion Animated Movie About Orphans and Sex Jokes!
There Are Also Subtitles!
by Suzette Smith
Phantom Thread
Review: A Phenomenally Fucked-Up Romantic Comedy
Paul Thomas Anderson’s Style and Substance
by Erik Henriksen
The Post
Review: Spielberg’s Ode to the Adversarial Press
Hey, Neat! A Reminder of Why Newspapers Matter!
by Vince Mancini
A Pared-Down Reel Music Fest Offers a Few Must-Sees
Highlights Include
Itzhak
,
Long Strange Trip
, and a Unique Screening of
The Passion of Joan of Arc
by Robert Ham
Visual Art
Beyond
The Americans
At Blue Sky Gallery, an Essential Look into the Life and Work of Photographer Robert Frank
by Megan Burbank
Origins of Illimat
Making a Board Game with the Decemberists
by Ben Coleman
Feature
A City Scandalized
How the Vice Clique Scandal of 1912 Exposed Portland’s Gay Underground
by Heather Arndt Anderson
Ask a Pot Lawyer
Sorry, Jeff Sessions, But Legal Weed’s Not Going Anywhere
Although the Attorney General Ripped Up the Cole Memo, It’s Still Business as Usual
by Vince Sliwoski
I, Anonymous
This Week’s Featured I, Anonymous!
You’re Welcome
by Anonymous
Lush Life
Stay the Course: Drinking Right in 2018
Keep Your Cocktail-Related Resolutions in 2018 at Some of the New Hit Bars of 2017.
by Thomas Ross
Last Supper
A Touch of Yucatan
Taqueria La Mestiza is Small, But Mighty
by Andrea Damewood
Cannabuzz
Nightingale Remedies Makes a Cannabis Topical That Actually Works
Because, Despite What Patrick Swayze Taught Us, Pain Does Hurt
by Josh Jardine
One Day at a Time
This Week: Nuclear Buttons! Cheeto Dicks! And Trump vs. Bannon!
by Ann Romano
New Column!
Who I’d Cast in the
Fire and Fury
Movie
(Or, Why Hasn’t Hollywood Hired Me Yet? Are They Stupid?)
by Wm. Steven Humphrey
Letters
Letters to the Editor
Weed, Tonya Harding, and the
Mercury
’s Unquestioned Market Dominance
I, Anonymous Blog
Project Positivity
by Anonymous
Punk Kid
by Anonymous
Confessions of a Libtard
by Anonymous
High Cuck Poem
by Anonymous
Reality Check
by Anonymous
Weird Attractions?
by Anonymous
Coasting through the rainy winter
by Anonymous
Oregon For Life
by Anonymous
Many Many Thoughts
by Anonymous
You are a piece of shit
by Anonymous
Groceries and Guns
by Anonymous
Being Small
by Anonymous
Quimby @ 23rd car prowler
by Anonymous
Losing
by Anonymous
New Ego
by Anonymous
Motherhood.Gov
by Anonymous
People Hating People
by Anonymous
My Fellow Neighbors and Strangers
by Anonymous
Worst Interview Ever
by Anonymous
Get off the Road!
by Anonymous
Savage Love & Sex
Savage Love
Worms Turn
by Dan Savage
The Party Review
The
Mercury
Does The Holidays Right
by Mx. Dahlia Belle
From Slacktivism to Activism
The 10 Best Ways to Make a Difference in Portland this Week: January 10-16
Celebrate Roe v. Wade with Drag Queen Karaoke, March for MLK, and Volunteer with Transition Projects
by Emilly Prado
Portland’s Pretty
Built to Spill (and Impress)
These Sweeties are the Cure for Your Winter Blues
by Marissa Sullivan